The Automotive Policy, like any other policy of that magnitude, comes with its own challenges but it seems the benefits outweigh the odds. There is a potential advantage of technology transfer by the foreign companies now manufacturing in Nigeria, the possibility of up to a million direct and indirect jobs. Stallion Group, the makers of Nissan brand of vehicles have produced 6,000 vehicles in Nigeria within the last two years and that is surely a good start.
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Agriculture has of course been one of the talking points of the Goodluck Jonathan government and rightly so. Nigeria’s Minister of Agriculture, Akinwumi Adesina was named the Forbes Africa Person of the Year 2013 for spearheading government reforms in the agricultural sector that has seen to the empowerment of more than six million farmers across Nigeria. In the last four years, agriculture is gradually being shepherded from the backwaters of development rhetoric to a mainstream business endeavor attracting both old and young…
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